Sight Support West of England exists to reduce the impact of sight loss. We are seeking a proactive and organised team player to provide support to our client services team across the region.

The Services Coordinator is a new role, with responsibilities including managing team systems, client database, and resource centres, and working with the Head of Services to shape services and monitor the impact of the team’s work.  

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate who can apply their experience of providing support and managing systems and processes to help Sight Support’s services team increase their efficiency and effectiveness in delivering high quality services to blind and partially sighted people across the region.  This is an exciting time of growth and development at Sight Support and we are looking for a strong team player who will relish the challenge of developing the role and helping to embed new services and ways of working across the team.

This role will be based in our office in Devizes, with regular travel to our Bristol office and other venues.

Sight Support is committed to quality, equality and valuing diversity, and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a sight loss charity, we particularly encourage applicants who are visually impaired to apply.

Job Title: Lead Trainer and Assessor

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £32,000 - £38,000

Contract: Permanent (subject to 6-month probationary period)

Location: Flexible (home, Bristol office or London office) with regular travel across UK

The Role

Our training programme significantly improves the ability of domestic abuse professionals and other frontline responders and organisations, including police, children’s social care staff, and corporate HR and community teams, to identify and respond to domestic abuse and closely linked issues. We take a holistic approach, looking at the whole family and the connections between them to keep families safe sooner, and offer a whole range of training products to develop people who support them, including accredited professional training (e.g Idva, Ypva), accreditation of specialist DA services (Leading Lights), and bespoke services for public, voluntary and commercial organisations.

Our training programme across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland aims to create:

• user value: with learners who attend our training feeling more confident and better equipped to fulfil their role
• social value: with measures showing professionals who attend our training provide more effective interventions for those who experience abuse
• financial value: responsible for generating around a third of SafeLives’ annual income

As one of SafeLives’ trainers and assessors you will be part of the SafeLives learning and accreditation programme, with shared responsibility for developing, delivering and continuing a range of courses from within our suite. More broadly, you will work to ensure that SafeLives’ training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development and delivery with external partners and associate trainers.

You will combine teamwork with working independently on a day-to-day basis at home, in SafeLives’ Bristol or London office and at training locations.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the performance of professionals within the domestic abuse and related sectors at a national level as well as the response of other frontline or first responders in the public, voluntary or commercial sectors, and thus help address the risks faced by victims of domestic abuse.

Benefits include a generous package including 25 days’ holiday a year and public holidays, employee pension scheme with up to 4% employer contribution, childcare voucher scheme, Cycle to Work scheme and flexible working.

If this challenge sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and you believe you have the qualities we have described, please take a look over the job description and submit a 500-word cover letter, CV and equal opportunity form.

The Role

Acting in a ‘lead professional’ capacity, you will provide support to enable service users to move to longer-term appropriate accommodation. In this important role you will deliver support to service users with complex needs who have experienced domestic abuse and been provided with short term, emergency refuge accommodation in Bath & North East Somerset.

We are looking for individuals who have experience of working with people who have experienced domestic abuse and possess a sound understanding of domestic abuse and associated issues.

Experience of working with people who may also have more complex needs such as substance misuse or mental health difficulties is also key, as is a good level of understanding of the Benefits system, including Universal Credit.

Naturally, you should have an excellent level of IT literacy in MS Office products and case management systems and be comfortable communicating with people at all levels.

If you feel you have the experience we would love to hear from you.

PHASE Worldwide are looking to hire a part-time Communications and Digital (C&D) Officer to join our team in Bristol on a fixed term contract. The C&D Officer will develop and manage PHASE Worldwide’s communications and digital presence, ensuring we are making the most of communications and digital channels, to reach more people, particularly through largescale appeals and campaigns. We are looking for someone who is an excellent writer, able to think creatively and can produce varied and engaging content. 

1.1 Develop and implement an effective communications strategy for future appeals and campaigns

1.2 Write, edit, and distribute compelling content, including publications, articles, press releases, website content, annual reports, and other marketing material that communicates PHASE Worldwide’s work

1.3 Develop and manage PHASE Worldwide’s online presence and outputs including website, social media channels and other digital platforms

1.4 Establish and maintain effective relationships with journalists, maintain a media database, arrange interviews, and respond to media enquiries

1.5 Create, commission and curate impactful digital assets including photos, videos, infographics, social media posts, blogs, ads, and newsletters

1.6 Collaborate and work with communications and programme staff from PHASE Worldwide’s partner PHASE Nepal

1.7 Support other communications activities as required including drafting copy for offline materials

1.8 Develop plans for communication activities across paid, owned and earned digital channels

1.9 Promote the vision, aims and objectives of PHASE Worldwide and ensure that all contact with external people and organisations fully reflect the professional approach and values of PHASE Worldwide

2.0 Understand and comply with all relevant legislation and adhere to organisational and operational policies, procedures, and administrative procedures, with particular reference to PHASE Worldwide’s code of conduct and safeguarding policy.

2.1 Undertake any other duties as required and requested 

Liveable Cities & Towns Officer

West of England

(Ref: SUS3006)

£24,691 per annum

37.5 hours per week – 12 month contract - based in Bristol

This exciting opportunity will work across the west of England to raise levels of ambition for better walking and cycling environments, helping Sustrans to deliver a key strategic objective:  Liveable Cities and Towns for Everyone.  You will advocate change to enable the development of ’20 minute neighbourhoods’ where walking, cycling and street play are possible, working with community groups, campaign organisations, local businesses and councils to make the case for change and to amplify seldom heard voices.

Committed to the benefits of active travel and the development and promotion of walking and cycling, you will have excellent communication skills, experience of working with community groups or organisations and prioritising a complex workload.  You will be very enthusiastic about the role and have the ability to motivate and engage others.  Experience of successful partnership working, organising and delivering events and leading group workshops is also required as is IT literacy and an understanding of best practice in providing for cyclists and pedestrians in urban environments.  You will also be committed to the promotion of sustainable transport.  

Closing date for the receipt of completed applications is 9am on Wednesday 14 October 2020.  Interviews will take place via MS Teams / Zoom on Tuesday 3 November 2020.

We may close the job early if sufficient applications have been received so please make sure you submit your application as soon as possible.

Sustrans is committed to reducing inequality, valuing diversity and enabling inclusion.  We welcome applications from people with the appropriate skills from all parts of the community.

Client Referral and Engagement Worker

10 hours per week (37.5 FTE)

£26,000 per annum (pro rata)

Days are flexible and can be agreed on appointment

The Green House provides counselling and psychotherapy for adults, children and young people who have experienced sexual trauma including rape and sexual abuse at any time in their lives. Our counselling services are free and we provide up to six months of therapy for each client.

We are currently seeking a Client Referral and Engagement Worker to support The Green House Adult Counselling Service. The desired applicant will manage all incoming counselling referrals and provide signposting and support to those waiting for therapy. They will also develop and run client consultation/survivor voice at The Green House, ensuring survivor voices are integral in shaping our future services. 

External clinical supervision, induction and training are provided by The Green House.

Application is by CV with a letter outlining your suitability with reference to the Job Description and Person Specification.

Please give the names and contact details of two referees who know your therapeutic and management work well – one should be a current or recent employer.

Closing date: 9am on Wednesday 21st October

Interview date: Thursday 29th October

The Green House are an equal opportunities employer and value a diverse workforce. We welcome applicants from all communities and backgrounds.

FareShare South West is looking for a Fundraising Manager to join our fast paced, fast growing charity and drive our fundraising strategy to the next level, so that we can get more good food to vulnerable people. 

Context of the role 

Our charity has been expanding fast over the past three years. In 2017 we were supporting around 130 charities, schools and community groups with a food supply, and stopping around 300 tonnes of quality surplus food from going to waste. In 2020, our charity looks different. Last year we supported 290 charities and distributed over 550 tonnes of surplus food (enough for over 1 million meals). We expanded our operation into new regions of the South West and launched programmes to target specific beneficiary groups (eg: vulnerable children). This year, we turned our entire operation on its head to deliver an Emergency Food Operation in response to Covid-19 in addition to our existing work- more than quadrupling in size in three short months. We have emerged a much larger charity than we were before Covid, with hundreds more charities relying on our food. Against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of food insecurity, we believe it is more important than ever to stop surplus food from becoming waste. 

Our ideal candidate

We are seeking an ambitious, creative Fundraising Manager who can apply their experience to sustainable and strategic growth across our fundraising portfolio. This includes development of existing fundraising streams as well as the creation of new processes, strategies and resources to kickstart growth of newer fundraising streams and opportunities. Alongside our Head of Development, they will build on relationships with our friends and supporters in Bristol and beyond to engage and inspire support for our work. We need a fundraiser who understands the need of our growing charity to be agile and innovotive in the context of fast-moving need and opportunity, while also instilling solid structure and process in our core fundraising activity. 

Our new Fundraising Manager will be part of our wider Development team, and will report to our Head of Development. The Development Team covers Fundraising, Communications and Membership (our Membership team looks after our 300+ charity members). We want to unite all three strands of this team to ensure our work is as joined-up as possible, delivering cross-cutting campaigns, effective communication and content that supports the sustainable growth of our charity’s income streams. Our brilliant team is our most important asset here at FareShare South West, and you will be supported and surrounded by passionate people who love what they do.

This role will be based principally at our offices in Bristol, but could include the option of working from home on occasion. This role is advertised as full time but part time working would be considered for the right candidate.

To apply, please upload a Cover Letter and CV by midday on Tuesday, October 5th 2020.

To read more, please download our Job Description. If you have any questions or want to talk through this role, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Housing Support Worker

Salary: £21,000 per annum

Contract/Hours: Fixed term until 31 March 2021

Full time, 35 hours per week

Closing date: 12th October 2020

Ara is looking for an experienced support worker to provide housing-related support to clients in our substance misuse accommodation. Working within the principles of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), you will support clients around maintaining accommodation, developing recovery capital and increasing independence.

Ara’s Housing Service is part of Bristol ROADS and Bristol Homelessness Prevention pathways.

In return we offer:

• 25 days’ leave per annum and Bank Holidays
• A 35 hour working week to promote a healthy work-life balance
• Comprehensive training
• Meaningful and fulfilling work that make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working & Home working
• A commitment to employee well-being through emotional support, supervision, and reflective practice
• Free to access 365 /24 Hr Employee Assistance Program for employees and those family members at the same address

At ARA we passionately believe that people can change and recover. We provide structured treatment, counselling, housing support, education, training and employment guidance, as well as many other interventions to promote recovery and a healthier life.

ARA, registered charity number 1002224.  ARA is a values-driven, forward thinking charity, that strives for diversity and inclusion.

We are looking for a Digital lead to drive the delivery of a range of new products to support carers across Bath & North East Somerset.

As part of our small but innovative team, you will actively deliver and monitor new products, taking ownership from ideation through to launch.

The right candidate will help us deliver our vision of a community where carers of today and tomorrow are full recognised, valued and supported and have what they need to stay well, in control and feel  connected.